Democratic State

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 31, 2010
Egypt held parliamentary elections this week. Does that make it a democracy? Steven Cook, a Douglas Dillon Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of Ruling But Not Governing: The Military and Political Development in Egypt, Algeria, and Turkey (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007), weighs in and talks about the state of the democracy movement in the Middle East.

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